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See also:LANE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY (1814–1866) , See also:American soldier and politician, was See also:born at See also:Lawrenceburg, See also:Indiana, on the 22nd of See also:June 1814. He was the son of See also:Amos Lane (1778–1849), a See also:political See also:leader in Indiana, a member of the Indiana See also:House of Representatives in 1816–1818 (See also:speaker in 1817–1818), in 1821–1822 and in 1839–1840, and from 1833 to 1837 a Democratic representative in See also:Congress. The son received a See also:common school See also:education, studied See also:law and in 1840 was admitted to the See also:bar. In the Mexican See also:War he served as a See also:colonel under See also:General See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, and then commanded the Fifth Indiana See also:regiment (which he had raised) in the See also:Southern See also:Campaign under General See also:Scott. Lane was See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of Indiana from 1849 to 1853,and from 1853 to 1855 was a Democratic representative in Congress. His See also:vote in favour of the See also:Kansas-See also:Nebraska See also:Bill ruined his political future in his own See also:state, and he emigrated in 1855 to the Territory of Kansas, probably as an See also:agent of See also:Stephen A.See also:Douglas to organize the Democratic party there. He soon joined the See also:Free State forces, however, was a member of the first general Free State See also:convention at Big Springs in See also:September 1855, and wrote its " See also:platform," which deprecated abolitionism and urged the exclusion of negroes from the Territory; and he presided over the See also:Topeka Constitutional Convention, composed of Free State men, in the autumn of 1855. Lane was second in command of the forces in See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence during the " Wakarusa War "; and in the See also:spring of 1856 was elected a See also:United States senator under the Topeka Constitution, the validity of which, however, and therefore the validity of his See also:election, Congress refused to recognize. In May 1856, with See also:George See also:Washington Deitzler (1826–1884), Dr See also:Charles See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson, and other Free State leaders, he was indicted for See also:treason; but he escaped from Kansas, made a tour of the See also:northern cities, and by his fiery See also:oratory aroused See also:great See also:enthusiasm in behalf of the Free State See also:movement in Kansas. Returning to the Territory with See also:John See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown in See also:August 1856, he took an active See also:part in the domestic feuds of 1856-1857. After Kansas became a state, Lane was elected in 1861 to the United States See also:Senate as a Republican. Immediately on reaching Washington he organized a See also:company to guard the See also:President; and in August 1861, having gained the See also:ear of the Federal authorities and become intimate with President See also:Lincoln, he went to Kansas with vague military See also:powers, and exercised them in spite of the protests of the governor and the See also:regular departmental commanders. During the autumn, with a See also:brigade of 1500 men, he conducted a devastating campaign on the See also:Missouri border, and in See also:July 1862 he was appointed See also:commissioner of recruiting for Kansas, a position in which he rendered faithful service, though he frequently came into conflict with the state authorities. At this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he planned a chimerical " great Southern expedition " against New See also:Mexico, but this came to nothing. In 1864 he laboured earnestly for the re-election of Lincoln. When President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson quarrelled with the See also:Radical Republicans, Lane desertedthe latter and defended the Executive. Angered by his defection, certain senators accused him of being implicated in See also:Indian contracts of a fraudulent See also:character; and in a See also:fit of depression following this See also:accusation he took his own See also:life, dying near Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 11th of July 1866, ten days after he had shot himself in the See also:head. Ambitious, unscrupulous, rash and impulsive, and generally regarded by his contemporaries as an unsafe leader, Lane was a See also:man of great See also:energy and See also:personal See also:magnetism, and possessed oratorical powers of a high See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order.
See the See also:article by L. W. Spring entitled " The Career of a Kansas Politician," in vol. iv. (See also:October 1898) of the American See also:Historical See also:Review; and for the commoner view, which makes him not a See also:coward as does Spring, but a " grim chieftain " and a See also:hero, see John Speer, Life of Gen. James H. Lane, " The Saviour of Kansas," (See also:Garden See also:City, Kansas, 1896).
Senator Lane should not be confused with James Henry Lane (1833-1907), who served on the Confederate See also:side during the See also:Civil War, attaining the See also:rank of brigadier-general in 1862, and after the war was See also:professor of natural See also:philosophy and military See also:tactics in the See also:Virginia Agricultural and See also:Mechanical See also:College from 1872 to 188o, and professor of civil See also:engineering and See also:drawing in the See also:Alabama Poly-technic See also:Institute from 1882 until his See also:death.
End of Article: LANE, JAMES HENRY (1814–1866)
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